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Megan Peiser, "British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical" (JHU Press, 2026)

35 mins; March 28, 2026

Cathryn J. Prince, "For the Love of Labor: The Life of Pauline Newman" (U Illinois Press, 2026)

52 mins; March 26, 2026

Satya Shikha Chakraborty, "Colonial Caregivers: Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

63 hours 33 mins; March 25, 2026

Karen McNally ed., "Women in Hollywood's Dream Factory: Tales of Inequality, Abuse, and Resistance" (U Illinois Press, 2026)

63 hours 21 mins; March 19, 2026

Lisa Nakamura, "The Inattention Economy: How Women of Color Built the Internet" (U Minnesota Press, 2026)

43 mins; March 18, 2026

Kalpana Karunakaran, "A Woman of No Consequence: Memory, Letters and Resistance in Madras" (Context, 2026)

62 hours 56 mins; March 18, 2026

Teresa Svoboda, "Hitler and My Mother-In-Law" (OR Books, 2025)

44 mins; March 13, 2026

Maud Anne Bracke, "Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Reproductive Rights in Modern France: Feminism, Contraception, and Abortion, 1950-1980 (Oxford UP, 2025)

71 hours 10 mins; March 09, 2026

Amy Littlefield, "Killers of Roe: My Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of Abortion Rights" (Legacy Lit, 2026)

54 mins; March 06, 2026

Eleanor Gordon, "Working-Class Courtship, Marriage, and Divorce in Scotland, 1855–1939" (Oxford UP, 2025)

62 hours 16 mins; March 05, 2026

Jennifer Randles, "Living Diaper to Diaper: The Hidden Crisis of Poverty and Motherhood" (U California Press, 2026)

41 mins; March 05, 2026

Lorraine Grimes, "Single Mothers in Twentieth-century Ireland and Britain: Pregnancy, Migration and Institutionalization" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

47 mins; March 04, 2026

E. T. Dailey, "Radegund: The Trials and Triumphs of a Merovingian Queen" (Oxford UP, 2023)

66 hours 0 mins; March 02, 2026

Joanna Bourke, "Five Evil Women: Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker" (Reaktion, 2026)

61 hours 9 mins; March 01, 2026

Sarah Jones Weicksel, "A Nation Unraveled: Clothing, Culture, and Violence in the American Civil War Era" (UNC Press, 2026)

55 mins; February 27, 2026

Leah Astbury, "Making Babies in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

56 mins; February 26, 2026

Gail D. Zona, "Dearest Clara: The Correspondence of the Nichols Sisters, 1858-1898" (Palmetto, 2025)

51 mins; February 24, 2026

Andrea Mansker, "Matchmaking and the Marriage Market in Postrevolutionary France" (Cornell UP, 2024)

50 mins; February 24, 2026

Carla Kaplan, "Troublemaker: The Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford" (Harper, 2025)

65 hours 36 mins; February 18, 2026

Shelley Puhak, "The Blood Countess: Murder, Betrayal, and the Making of a Monster" (Bloomsbury, 2026)

52 mins; February 17, 2026

Feminism and Critical Hindu Studies with Shreena Gandhi, Harshita Kamath, Sailaja Krishnamurt, and Shana Sippy

61 hours 13 mins; February 16, 2026

The Power of the State: Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, and Minneapolis

52 mins; February 12, 2026

The Power of the State: Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, and Minneapolis

52 mins; February 12, 2026

Elizabeth A. DeWolfe, "Alias Agnes: The Notorious Tale of a Gilded Age Spy" (UP of Kentucky, 2025)

49 mins; February 11, 2026

Linda Connolly and Tina O’Toole, "Documenting Irish Feminisms: The Second Wave" (Arlen House, 2022)

57 mins; February 08, 2026

Dianna N. Watkins-Dickerson, "A Black Woman for President: Shirley Chisholm, Carol Moseley Braun, and Kamala Harris" (UP of Mississippi)

60 hours 48 mins; February 04, 2026

Jessica Lake, "Special Damage: The Slander of Women and the Gendered History of Defamation Law" (Stanford UP, 2025)

55 mins; February 02, 2026

Vanessa R. Sasson, "The Gathering: A Story of the First Buddhist Women" (Equinox, 2023)

53 mins; February 01, 2026

Debra Kaplan and Elisheva Carlebach, "A Woman Is Responsible for Everything: Jewish Women in Early Modern Europe" (Princeton UP, 2025)

60 hours 11 mins; January 29, 2026

Betty Boyd Caroli, "A Slumless America: Mary K. Simkhovitch and the Dream of Affordable Housing" (Oxford UP, 2026)

59 mins; January 28, 2026

Toby Green, "The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

44 mins; January 27, 2026

Misty L. Heggeness, "Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy" (U California Press, 2026)

45 mins; January 27, 2026

Erika Quinn, "This Horrible Uncertainty: A German Woman Writes War, 1939-1948" (Berghahn Books, 2024)

35 mins; January 25, 2026

Nena Vandeweerdt, "Women and Work Through a Comparative Lens: Gender and the Urban Labor Markets of Premodern Brabant and Biscay" (Leuven UP, 2025)

42 mins; January 25, 2026

Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff, "Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

66 hours 58 mins; January 24, 2026

Susannah Wilson, "A Most Quiet Murder: Maternity, Affliction, and Violence in Late Nineteenth-Century France" (Cornell UP, 2025)

46 mins; January 23, 2026

Lauren D. Sawyer, "Growing Up Pure: White Girls, Queer Teens, and the Racial Foundations of Purity Culture" (NYU Press, 2025)

44 mins; January 22, 2026

Abortion and Reproductive Justice: An Essential Guide for Resistance

61 hours 33 mins; January 22, 2026

Alison Rowlands, "Witchcraft Narratives in Germany: Rothenburg, 1561-1652" (Manchester UP, 2026)

52 mins; January 21, 2026

Sara Petrosillo, "Hawking Women: Falconry, Gender, and Control in Medieval Literary Culture" (Ohio State UP, 2023)

50 mins; January 19, 2026

Oline Eaton, "Finding Jackie: The Second Act of America's First Lady" (Diversion Books, 2023)

56 mins; January 18, 2026

Lottie Whalen, "Radicals & Rogues: The Women Who Made New York Modern" (Reaktion, 2023)

38 mins; January 16, 2026

Zoë McGee, "Courting Disaster: Reading Between the Lines of the Regency Novel" (Manchester UP, 2025)

63 hours 57 mins; January 15, 2026

Sam Fullerton, "Sexual Politics in Revolutionary England" (Manchester UP, 2026)

53 mins; January 15, 2026

Matthew Kennedy, "On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide" (Oxford UP, 2024)

67 hours 28 mins; January 11, 2026

Linda Eckert, "Enough: Because We Can Stop Cervical Cancer" (Cambridge UP, 2024)

24 mins; January 11, 2026

Heather Smith-Cannoy et al., "Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses" (Georgetown UP, 2022)

58 mins; January 11, 2026

Re-examining the Women’s Movement in Cold War South Korea and Beyond

26 mins; January 09, 2026

Barbara Jane Brickman, "Suffering Sappho! Lesbian Camp in American Popular Culture" (Rutgers UP, 2023)

76 hours 3 mins; January 08, 2026

Helen J. Nicholson, "Women and the Crusades" (Oxford UP, 2023)

35 mins; January 06, 2026

Ashley Brown, "Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson" (Oxford UP, 2023)

45 mins; January 03, 2026

Alison Stone, "Women Philosophers in Nineteenth-Century Britain" (Oxford UP, 2023)

55 mins; December 31, 2025

Marion Gibson, "Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials" (Scribner, 2023)

49 mins; December 30, 2025

Kate Clancy, "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" (Princeton UP, 2023)

28 mins; December 30, 2025

Donna J. Drucker, "Fertility Technology" (MIT Press, 2023)

30 mins; December 29, 2025

Ruby Oram, "Home Work: Gender, Child Labor, and Education for Girls in Urban America, 1870-1930" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

57 mins; December 27, 2025

Tracey Norman and Mark Norman, "Devon's Forgotten Witches: 1860–1910" (The History Press, 2025)

57 mins; December 23, 2025

Liberation & the Literature of the Women’s Movement with Bess Wohl and Honor Moore

56 mins; December 23, 2025

Molly-Claire Gillett, "Irish Lacemaking: Art, Industry and Cultural Practice" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

64 hours 13 mins; December 21, 2025

Amy Erdman Farrell, "Intrepid Girls: The Complicated History of the Girl Scouts of the USA" (UNC Press, 2025)

57 mins; December 18, 2025

Alexandra Ghiț, "Welfare Work Without Welfare: Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest" (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025)

44 mins; December 18, 2025

Caitlin Wiesner, "Between the Street and the State: Black Women’s Anti-Rape Activism Amid the War on Crime" (U Pennsylvania, 2025)

75 hours 8 mins; December 11, 2025

Susan Ashbrook Harvey, "Ministries of Song: Women’s Voices in Ancient Syriac Christianity" (U California Press, 2025)

87 hours 31 mins; December 09, 2025

Peace A. Medie, "Global Norms and Local Action: The Campaigns to End Violence Against Women in Africa" (Oxford UP, 2020)

62 hours 6 mins; December 08, 2025

The Nursing Clio Editorial Collective, "The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice" (Rutgers UP, 2025)

50 mins; December 06, 2025

Grace Kessler Overbeke, "First Lady of Laughs: The Forgotten Story of Jean Carroll" (NYU Press, 2024)

44 mins; December 05, 2025

Anny Gaul, "Nile Nightshade: An Egyptian Culinary History of the Tomato" (U California Press, 2025)

57 mins; December 04, 2025

Carolyn J. Eichner, "Feminism's Empire" (Cornell UP, 2022)

82 hours 43 mins; December 01, 2025

Patricia Anne Simpson, "Early Modern Women's Work: Kinship, Community, and Social Justice" (Routledge, 2025)

59 mins; November 30, 2025

Amanda Parrish Morgan, "Stroller" (Bloomsbury, 2022)

49 mins; November 30, 2025

Karen Weingarten, "Pregnancy Test" (Bloomsbury, 2023)

40 mins; November 27, 2025

Marion Turner, "The Wife of Bath: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2023)

44 mins; November 27, 2025

Natalie Porter, "Girl Gangs, Zines, and Powerslides: A History of Badass Women Skateboarders" (ECW Press, 2025)

45 mins; November 27, 2025

Yolanda Aixelà-Cabré, "African Women’s Histories in European Narratives: The Afropolitan Krio Fernandino Diaspora (1850-1996)" (Leuven UP, 2025)

44 mins; November 24, 2025

Sarah Hoiland, "Righteous Sisterhood: The Politics and Power of an All-Women's Motorcycle Club" (Temple UP, 2025)

44 mins; November 23, 2025

Shatema Threadcraft, "Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2025)

58 mins; November 22, 2025

Julie Dobrow, "Love and Loss After Wounded Knee: A Biography of an Extraordinary Interracial Marriage" (NYU Press, 2025)

44 mins; November 22, 2025

Can Feminism be African?: A Conversation with Minna Salami

34 mins; November 20, 2025

Emily Callaci, "Wages for Housework: The Feminist Fight Against Unpaid Labor" (Seal Press, 2025)

46 mins; November 20, 2025

Emily Winderman, "Back-Alley Abortion: A Rhetorical History (JHU Press, 2025)

32 mins; November 19, 2025

Philip Nash, "Clare Boothe Luce: American Renaissance Woman" (Routledge, 2022)

64 hours 56 mins; November 17, 2025

Christina Lane, "Phantom Lady: Hollywood Producer Joan Harrison, the Forgotten Woman Behind Hitchcock" (Chicago Review Press, 2020)

61 hours 36 mins; November 16, 2025

Nayma Qayum, "Village Ties: Women, NGOs, and Informal Institutions in Rural Bangladesh" (Rutgers UP, 2021)

62 hours 46 mins; November 16, 2025

Michelle Christine Smith, "Utopian Genderscapes: Rhetorics of Women's Work in the Early Industrial Age" (Southern Illinois UP, 2021)

59 mins; November 09, 2025

Naomi Baker, "Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century" (Reaktion Books, 2025)

50 mins; November 07, 2025

Carol Mason, "From the Clinics to the Capitol: How Opposing Abortion Became Insurrectionary" (U California Press, 2025)

57 mins; November 05, 2025

Mimi Abramovitz, "Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present" (Routledge, 2025)

29 mins; November 04, 2025

Rebecca L. Davis, "Fierce Desires: A New History of Sex and Sexuality in America" (Norton, 2024)

59 mins; November 03, 2025

Jessica Campbell, "The Brontës and the Fairy Tale" (Ohio UP, 2024)

55 mins; November 01, 2025

Theresa Muñoz, "Archivum" (Pavillion Poetry at Liverpool UP, 2025)

39 mins; October 29, 2025

Jennifer Barry, "Gender Violence in Late Antiquity: Male Fantasies and the Christian Imagination" (U California Press, 2025)

32 mins; October 27, 2025

Carl Rollyson, "The Making of Sylvia Plath (UP Mississippi, 2024)

55 mins; October 21, 2025

Anthony Valerio, "Semmelweis: The Women's Doctor" (Zantedeschi Books, 2019)

60 hours 44 mins; October 20, 2025

Hilary Holladay, "The Power of Adrienne Rich: A Biography" (Princeton UP, 2025)

57 mins; October 17, 2025

Emily Gee, "Hostel, House and Chambers: Accommodating the Victorian and Edwardian Working Woman" (Liverpool UP, 2025)

49 mins; October 15, 2025

Martin Austin Nesvig, "The Women Who Threw Corn: Witchcraft and Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Mexico" (Cambridge UP, 2025)

60 hours 47 mins; October 15, 2025

Signal Award Re-Release: Lost Women of Disco

50 mins; October 14, 2025

Zara Anishanslin, "The Painter's Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution" (Harvard UP, 2025)

49 mins; October 07, 2025

Justine De Young, "The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris" (Bloomsbury, 2025)

71 hours 17 mins; October 06, 2025

Katherine J. Parkin, "The Abortion Market: Buying and Selling Access in the Era Before Roe" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025)

42 mins; October 06, 2025

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